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Provides a collection of critical essays on Herman Melville's Billy Budd.
About This Volume, Brian Yothers -- On Billy Budd, Brian Yothers -- Herman Melville Biography, Brian Yothers -- Critical Contexts -- Anecdotal, Historical, and Literary: the Layering of Sources in -- Melville's Billy Budd, Peter Norberg -- Testaments of Justice and Love: The Critical Reception -- of Billy Budd, Brian Yothers -- Performing the Sailor in Billy Budd, Sailor, Mary K. Bercaw Edwards -- "Billy's Rendering of the Matter": Global Translations -- of Billy Budd, Sailor, Jeffrey Einboden -- Critical Readings -- Problem Points of Passage: "Boggy Ground" in Herman Melville's -- Billy Budd, Sailor, John Wenke -- Melville's Late Reading and the Revisions in the Billy -- Budd Manuscript, Christopher M. Ohge -- Billy Budd's Challenge to the Idea of Truth, Russell Weaver -- "This Matter of Writing": Melville and the Manuscript Page, Wyn Kelley -- Melville's Final Frontier, Nicole de Fee -- Editions of Melville's Billy Budd: The First Forty Years, Robert C. Evans -- Legends of the Fall: Genesis, Paradise Lost, Schopenhauer, -- and Billy Budd, Jonathan A. Cook -- In the Name of the Father: Billy Budd and the Critics -- from the Melville Revival to Cold War America, David Greven -- Conflicts of Law in Herman Melville's Billy Budd, John Cyril Barton -- Resources -- Herman Melville Timeline -- Works by Herman Melville -- Bibliography -- About the Editor -- Contributors -- Index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.